Fair Time at the Fair

The kids and I spent a good portion of yesterday at the fair.  We showed up around 1 PM for the free admission and stayed until around 7 PM.  We visited the 4H building, the FFA building, saw lots of animals, ate giant freeze pops and met some new friends.  Want to see what else we did??

 We saw a bear show.  This is Ginger.  Her and her brother Fred are European brown bears.  

They were used as inspiration for the animations on Brother Bear.

 This is Fred.  See Fred sit.  See Fred pretty much beg for honey or dog biscuits.

 This is Ginger showing off her balancing skills.

 And this is her dancing.  Pretty good dancer.

 And finally Ginger can play basketball.

I didn't take too many pictures of Fred.  This is Fred doing somersaults.

Getting a kiss from Fred.

 Next we spent a bit of time in the petting zoo.  Not the best picture by any means.  Cool zebra though.  They also had some zebu, a macaw, a few other special animals.

 They also had an African Spur Tortoise.

 We fed some very greedy goats.

 "Mom they spit on my hand.  YUCK."

 The boys were lucky enough to sit inside this.  

We couldn't take any pictures of the inside - secret stuff you know.

 Suckers are yummy and sticky and wonderful and sticky and most of all sticky.

 Watch out for the gator show.  Scary stuff!

 Getting the 8 foot gator out of his hiding spot.

 tail splash

 twisting around

 sitting on the gator

 Caught.

 We were very close to the action.

 They got to pet a little gator named Wally.

 Farmer Cormac

 Sunflower Rex

 The little ducks slipped down and then...

 climbed back up.

 Petting a little chick.

Holding an even SMALLER chick.  It was super tiny. 

 These are Stephen's hands.

 A fun cage for the chicks.

 Ummm, didn't know they sold Easter poultry pre-decorated.

 Milkin' a cow.

 Milkin' a cow.

 Milkin' a cow.

 And you guessed it, milkin' a cow.

 Needing some sleep.

 

RIDE TIME!!! 

COOLEST.  Ever.  wow. 

 How fitting that they were in the General Lee.

 Rex and Stephen on the motorcycle ride.

 Oh, oh, oh, ok this is fun.

 Reserved Stephen.  Maybe half a smile towards the end of the ride.

 Brech Earl did NOT want a picture.  Get this show on the road already.

 Cormac's rocket.

 Brech and Darren in the silver, Cormac in the green right behind them, and Stephen right behind him in red.

Stephen in the red, Cormac in front of him in green and you can just barely see Darren and Brech.

We had a great time.  It was hot.  It was dusty.  It was a fair.